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 Posted - July 30 2023 : 2:52:53 PM
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Posted - July 31 2023 : 2:20:48 PM
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An old Pennsylvania Scale Models car which came to me courtesy of Randy.
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Posted - July 31 2023 : 5:53:15 PM
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awesome trolley, Cheese
I got this UP #119 4-4-0 in that $25 box of trains at a garage sale
course I wanna find the original Jupiter too 
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Posted - August 01 2023 : 3:58:21 PM
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For a time, Tyco sold an engine they called the Pony. It was a shifter (0-4-0) with more of a mainline tender. This was not originally one of them, but I had a shifter and I had this box tender left over from another project. Why not put a mainline tender on an 0-4-0 and use it on the Mussentuchit Transfer between the Fishhook and Mussentuchit RR, and the Tabor and Waldo RR? I got the engine at a swap meet. It was a very old Mantua Shifter with an odd set of gears that don't match the ones used now, and a diecast slope-back tender. The tender had zinc pest, so it needed a new tender. The engine had been super-detailed by the previous owner. I just added a tender and some more electrical pickup to have this strong runner.
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Posted - August 01 2023 : 6:14:08 PM
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Of interest to me is the 18-22 curved switch the locomotive is sitting on. For some reason, those haven't been made in years. The closest thing I can find are the 18-24 curved switches I build in a FastTracks jig,
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Posted - August 01 2023 : 10:23:20 PM
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quote:Of interest to me is the 18-22 curved switch the locomotive is sitting on. For some reason, those haven't been made in years. The closest thing I can find are the 18-24 curved switches I build in a FastTracks jig,
Originally posted by jward - August 01 2023 : 6:14:08 PM
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Atlas used to make them. I don't know why they stopped. They were handy for the plug and play way they could be put into Atlas track plans.
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Posted - August 02 2023 : 3:14:58 PM
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Queensdale rocks my world!
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Posted - August 03 2023 : 12:20:05 PM
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That Pony is a cool little engine!
Thanks Chops! I haven't done much on the layout lately, model railroading always slows down in the summer.
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Posted - August 04 2023 : 10:02:48 PM
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quote:That Pony is a cool little engine!
Thanks Chops! I haven't done much on the layout lately, model railroading always slows down in the summer.
Originally posted by DaCheez - August 03 2023 : 12:20:05 PM
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yeah same here
hey I know what you should make!
the Neighborhood Trolley!
why? cause it IS a modified Tyco Trolley!
https://www.cmu.edu/news/stories/archives/2019/november/mister-rogers-neighbors.html
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Posted - August 05 2023 : 12:00:36 AM
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Funny you should mention that Ben, as a kid there were like two things on in the afternoon that wasn't
trite soap opera or the CBS evening news with Roger Mudd, and Mr. Roger's was one of them on PBS.
The only part I liked was the trolley, then I'd wander off and find a book.
Edited by - Chops124 on August 05 2023 12:03:51 AM
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Posted - August 05 2023 : 10:24:48 PM
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quote:
Funny you should mention that Ben, as a kid there were like two things on in the afternoon that wasn't
trite soap opera or the CBS evening news with Roger Mudd, and Mr. Roger's was one of them on PBS.
The only part I liked was the trolley, then I'd wander off and find a book.
Originally posted by Chops124Â -Â August 05 2023Â :Â 12:00:36 AM
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lots of those buildings on that layout are made by different makers in HO
Like Roger's house is a Bachmann Plasticville Cape Cod House!
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